Accounting Jobs

This page pulls together accounting and finance openings from across our listings, along with what the main roles involve and what they pay. Every listing links through to the employer or the original posting, and applying is free with no account needed.

What Accounting Roles Actually Pay

In the US, staff accountants are commonly advertised in the region of $55,000 to $75,000, with senior accountants and financial analysts moving into the $75,000 to $100,000 band and controllers well above that. Public accounting tends to start lower than industry but moves faster.

In the UK, assistant accountant and bookkeeper roles are typically posted around £25,000 to £35,000, with qualified accountants commonly £40,000 to £60,000 depending on sector and city. In Pakistan, accounts officer roles commonly run PKR 50,000 to 120,000 a month, rising sharply for ACCA and CA-qualified candidates at multinationals.

The Certifications Employers Filter On

CPA is the dominant credential in the US, and for many senior and audit roles it is a hard requirement rather than a preference. CMA carries weight in management accounting and corporate finance.

ACCA and CIMA are the equivalents recognised across the UK and much of Asia and the Gulf, and ACCA in particular travels well for candidates in Pakistan looking at overseas roles. If you are part-qualified, say so and state how many papers remain — recruiters treat that very differently from no qualification at all.

Software Is Half the Shortlist

Name the systems you have actually used, not the ones you have heard of. QuickBooks and Xero dominate small-business and bookkeeping roles; SAP, Oracle and NetSuite dominate corporate and enterprise finance. Advanced Excel is assumed rather than impressive, so specify what you do with it — pivot tables and lookups are baseline, Power Query and modelling are not.

Reconciliation, month-end close, accounts payable and receivable, and statutory reporting are the phrases that get CVs through automated screening. Use the ones that genuinely describe your work.

How to Make an Accounting Application Land

Lead with your certification status, then the size and type of the books you have handled — a candidate who has closed month-end for a fifteen-person company and one who has done it for a listed group are doing different jobs with the same title.

Quantify where you can. Volume of invoices processed, size of ledger, number of entities consolidated, and time taken to close are the numbers hiring managers in finance actually read.

Common Roles & Job Titles

• Staff Accountant
• Senior Accountant
• Bookkeeper
• Accounts Payable Specialist
• Accounts Receivable Clerk
• Audit Associate
• Financial Analyst
• Financial Controller